A medical transport jet with six people on board crashed into a Philadelphia neighbourhood last night (31 January), erupting in a fireball.
The air ambulance was carrying a Mexican child who had been treated in the US city for a life threatening condition and was being flown home to Mexico.
Jet Rescue Air Ambulance said the child and her mother were on board along with four other crew members, all of whom are from Mexico.
The plane was first bound for Missouri with the intention of then flying onwards to its ultimate destination of Tijuana, but the flight only lasted around 30 seconds.
Crashing shortly after take off, a number of people on the ground were able to capture footage of the horrifying moment the jet crashed and erupted in a large fireball.
Six people were on board the air ambulance, and a nearby hospital has also treated six people who were on the ground. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Among the devices which recorded harrowing footage of the disaster were dashboard cameras from nearby cars and doorbell cameras from local residents.
Their footage shows the plane moving through the sky and hurtling towards the ground before the Philadelphia sky is lit up with the explosion.
One of the owners of a doorbell camera which captured the calamity, Jim Quinn, said: “All we heard was a loud roar and didn’t know where it was coming from. We just turned around and saw the big plume.”
Warning: contains distressing images
